Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

President and CEO Takanobu Ito unveiled the Fit EV Concept electric vehicle and the platform for a mid-size plug-in hybrid electric vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The all-new plug-in hybrid platform showcases Honda’s next-generation, two-motor hybrid technology set to debut in 2012. The plug-in hybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The University of Delaware has signed the first license for its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with AutoPort, Inc., The licensing agreement launches the first large-scale demonstration of the UD-developed V2G technology, which enables electric car owners to plug in their vehicles and send electricity back to electrical utilities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. The ADDZEV consortium includes: Cranfield University. University of Oxford. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Earlier post.). The approximately 4.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Within the framework of the fleet study, Volkswagen is implementing a total of 20 of the latest generation Golf Variant twïnDRIVE plug-in hybrid electric cars as research vehicles. Volkswagen study Golf Variant twïnDRIVE. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) These vehicles must be operated sustainably—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The National Science Foundation has selected a project by researchers at the University of Maryland and their partners from Genovation Cars ( earlier post ) for a $438,418 GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) award to develop a novel hybrid energy storage system for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Demonstration Program Vehicle 002. The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. With a plug-in you get rid of range anxiety. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). So you design around the limitations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Their paper was presented at the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2012 Fall Technical Conference by Marcello Canova, assistant professor at OSU; lead author was Philipp Skarke, from the University of Stuttgart Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering. —Skarke et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

SEAT—the Spain-based member of the Volkswagen Group—earlier this year delivered three electric-drive cars to Barcelona City Hall: two Leon TwinDrive Ecomotive plug-in hybrids, and one Altea XL Electric Ecomotive, an all-electric zero-emissions car. The Leon TwinDrive Ecomotive allows for all-electric or hybrid driving.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Projects include the development of new engines for plug-in hybrid versions of Nissan, Lotus and Jaguar Land Rover cars, a lightweight electric bin wagon, development of lightweight materials for vehicle weight reduction, and new technologies using thermal energy to improve vehicle performance. Lightweight Ultra Low Emissions Delivery Van.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

Most of these advanced vehicles will be electric or plug-in hybrids. Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. From Shanghai to Singapore to Silicon Valley, you will see these services sooner than most forecast.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2024

Also, components are almost universally better, including turn signals, larger 210mm hydraulic brakes, and huge 20-inch wheels that will go off-road much better than others in this class. There’s no heavy front wheel to put on, cables to plug in, or other stuff to install. It is also a great place to meet like-minded bike riders.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 6, 2023

In Utah the posted limit is 80 mph and for many drivers that was only a suggestion. We set the cruise control to 72 mph when on the freeway. Instead of flying from my home in Southern California, I asked if my wife and I could drive to the event. Even better than many. The all-electric efficiency averaged about 3.0 miles per kWh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. China has made big progress in electric car technologies but still lags behind other countries in certain areas, said the report.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 6, 2009

BMW’s just held an event for the lessees of their Mini E at the Science Center, next to the University of Southern California, a really stellar venue when you consider the product they were showing. orders of magnitude faster than the 95 mph Mini E. There have been delays, something we advocates of plug-ins have grown to expect.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. Electric Auto Association Silicon Valley (EAASV), established in 1967 as the original Electric Auto (now Vehicle) Association, has a long history of attracting members and presenting speakers who have gone on to become tech and transportation luminaries. It’s a very strong spirit.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Researchers at Purdue University have determined precisely how fluid boils in microchannels, and as a result have created formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers, and other applications. Click to enlarge. Eugene and Susie E. in Kokomo, Ind.,

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 25, 2022

She lived in the residential area around Stanford University and Ridge wasn’t that far away. Since I’m an idiot who doesn’t read manuals, I hadn’t told the nav system to only take me to an Electrify America charger where I can just plug and charge due to the free charging that came with my car. It was the elevation. It charged $0.35

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The all-electric range of the Prius Plug-In (23 km) will cover more than 50% of distances driven by single cars each day in Japan, according to Toyota. The plug-in made its North American debut at the recent Los Angeles Auto Show. Prius Plug-In Performance Specs (Japan). Plug-in hybrid fuel efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

The recommended measures and assumptions to achieve the MI scenario are grouped into four areas: Spatial planning, Fiscal, Behavioral and Technology. With the first three categories, the report recommends specific policy actions designed to reduce demand or change high-consumption behavior, that in turn, can influence the technology end-points.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of its all-electric vehicle Taxi fleet test, BYD announced high-level results of several pilots of its plug-in electric vehicles—the F3DM, e6 and eBUS-12—in fleet testing across the world. BYD all-electric e6 Taxi in service in Shenzhen. Click to enlarge. million kg) of carbon-dioxide.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

The first cars will utilize NiMH batteries, as do the Toyota test platform Plug-in Priuses at the University of California. London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone, who enacted London's much criticized congestion charge policy in 2003.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

It uses an infrared laser sensor built into the windshield to monitor the area in front of the SUV when traveling at speeds of about 2 to 19 mph. If the speed difference between vehicles is less than 9 mph, City Safety helps drivers avoid some crashes altogether. It’s not designed to work at speeds faster than 19 mph.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Dr. Heywood recently co-authored a study called “On The Road in 2035—Reducing Petroleum Consumption and GHG Emissions.”.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

Reaction from customers taking part in the UK trial, including the Metropolitan Police, universities, local councils, architects and energy companies, has proved so encouraging that smart’s parent company, Daimler AG, has confirmed that the smart electric drive will go into small series production, with cars coming to the UK in early 2010. .

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

DECEMBER 4, 2009

before 'booking it' to Florence, Pinal County on the "Plug-in Arizona Educational Tour," this sunny & bright Friday, 4 December 2009. just pondering another Plug-in Hybrid EV EVdventure of sorts per the new 2010 Prius PHEV press release. before trucking back to Home Sweet Bisbee. See www.PriusPHV.com and the press release below.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

In the PPE universe, Audi bets on bigger battery modules, and fewer of them, to ease manufacturing and to cut materials use—and therefore, planet-load. Audi quotes a 0-60 mph in 5.0 That’s good for a 0-60 mph run in 4.2 seconds, Audi says, while the SQ6 can also top out at 143 mph. It arrives in the U.S.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

This model comes in six colorways ( mango , indigo grey , silver , cyan , sky blue , and spring ) equipped with a 500W (900W peak) motor and a removable 48V battery that propels the e-bike up to 20 MPH (25 MPH unlocked) for up to 65 miles on a single 5-hour charge. Head below to learn more.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The FT-CH is a concept that would address Toyota’s stated strategy to offer a wider variety of conventional hybrid choices to its customers, as it begins to introduce plug-in hybrids (PHVs) and battery electrics (BEVs) in model year 2012, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCHVs) in 2015 in global markets. —Jim Lentz. Eight new hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2011

Over the past year the Dynamics and Control group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) (The Netherlands) has developed a battery electric research vehicle based on a VW Lupo 3L 1.2 The 4-seat Lupo EL has a top speed of 130 km/h (81 mph) and accelerates from 0 – 100 km/h in 12 seconds. Click to enlarge. Source: TU/e.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2010

The demonstration project will entail a one-year study that will be conducted by the University of Waterloo with funding from Transport Canada. The demonstration project will entail a one-year study that will be conducted by the University of Waterloo with funding from Transport Canada. Charge time is 3.8 to 5 hours at 240V.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An IONIQ 5 with this configuration can go from 0 to 60 MPH in less than 5 seconds. All configurations have a top speed of 115 MPH and can tow a trailer with a capacity of up to 2,000 pounds. Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 EV now features an EPA driving range of more than 300 miles, with ultra-fast charging from 10 to 80 percent in 18 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

An IONIQ 5 with this configuration can go from 0 to 60 MPH in less than 5 seconds. All configurations have a top speed of 115 MPH and can tow a trailer with a capacity of up to 1,500 pounds. IONIQ 5 rides on Hyundai’s Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) that allows for more interior space and optimized performance.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

The 402bhp (300kW) mid-engined, twin-motor sports car is capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 4 seconds and 0-130 mph in 30 seconds burst. The TSB provided the chance to access new technologies and work with a variety of organizations, including universities, suppliers and OEMs. EMERG-E on stage in Geneva. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Unique Exterior Design Vision Bigger is better The 2024 Kona utilized an EV universal-architecture, paving the way for Hyundai going all-electric in the coming years, so it makes perfect sense to have the gasoline engine play a secondary role in the Kona design vision. The naturally aspirated 2.0-liter

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Baua Electric

MAY 30, 2024

While plugged into a wall outlet, this power station will regain an 80% charge in just 45 minutes, or you can connect a maximum 1,200W solar input that will fully recharge it in just 1.7 Equipped with a 500W brushless motor and 36V battery, this scooter can reach top speeds of 20 MPH with a 24-mile range on a single charge.

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